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Dew Drop – July 1, 2020 (#3225)

Posted on July 1, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

3 Ways to Customize Your Windows Terminal (Windows Developer Team)
Future-proofing .NET application development with the Uno Platform (Simon Bisson)
Announcing: Rapid XAML Toolkit release 0.10 (Matt Lacey)
RunAs Radio – Windows Terminal 1.0 with Kayla Cinnamon (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Road to Cross-Platform Setup & Bootstrapping in .NET (Matthias Koch)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Functions On macOS With JetBrains Rider (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
The React + GraphQL 2020 Crash Course (Reed Barger)
How to Test and Play with Web APIs the Easy Way with Postman (Colby Fayock)
Azure Data Lake Storage static website now in preview (Azure Team)
What’s New in Angular 10 (Alyssa Nicoll)
Updating to Azure Functions v3 in Visual Studio (Brandon Minnick)
Using Spread Syntax to Merge Objects in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
Node v12.18.2 (LTS) (Bethany Nicolle Griggs)
V8 release v8.4 (Camillo Bruni)
API Development in Go Using Goa (Gleidson Nascimento)
Environment Variables with .NET Core and Elastic Beanstalk (Norm Johanson)
Node v14.5.0 (Current) (Shelley Vohr)
Understand the many meanings of multicloud (Valerie Silverthorne)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms Segmented Control with Sharpnado 1.7 (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
Why Should You Choose Essential UI Kit to Develop Xamarin Applications? (Leomaris Reyes)
How to Add Animation in Xamarin.Forms (Greg Lutz)
Xamarin Forms OTP verification Twilio (Samir G.C.)
Write Once, Run Everywhere with .NET and the Uno Platform (Peter Vogel)
Revisiting the base page concept using ContentView – Part 1 (Steven Thewissen)

Visual Studio & .NET

A Few Different Ways to Concatenate Strings in C# (Vladimir Pecanac)
Optional Dependencies with Autofac (Adam Storr)
Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling (Steve Pronovost)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Announcing Azure DevOps Server 2020 RC1 (Gloridel Morales)
Are There “Dark Matter” Designers? (Ben Nadel)
Advanced Installer 17.2 (Advanced Installer Team)
The Secrets To Sustaining A Strong Remote Team (Stella Garber)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

The Secret Rules of iOS Development (Allen Pike)
How to Create a Settings Menu in Unity (Lance Talbert)
Dart string manipulation done right (Tao Dong)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

ASP.NET Core Series: Getting started with the Worker templates | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Brady Gaster)
Microsoft Mechanics – SQL Server | Best Options for Database Migration using Azure Migrate (Bob Ward & Jeremy Chapman)
Entity Framework Core In-Depth Part 7 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 365 | Rounding Up Recent News From Microsoft (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Demystifying ARM Templates: Creating Your First Template | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady & AbelSquidHead)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 173 (Jason Bock)
Real Talk JS Episode 90: Using Frisby and Jest with William Imoh (John Papa)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 415: Berkay on Incident Management (Adam Gordon Bell)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Can’t Pay Your Taxes if The Website Won’t Load (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)

Community & Events

Breathing new hope into Africa’s fight against COVID-19 (Bill Gates)
Microsoft launches initiative to help 25 million people worldwide acquire the digital skills needed in a COVID-19 economy (Brad Smith)
Microsoft’s head of Xbox Live leaves after 15 years in the company’s Xbox department (Brad Stephenson)
2020 Board of Trustees Election (F# Software Foundation)
.NET Conf: Focus on Microservices, coming July 30th (Jason Gaylord)
Awesome Things to Do in Philly This Week & Weekend, June 30 – July 5 (Visit Philly)

Database

Which Date and Time Type to Use in SQL Server 2019? (David Grace)
Using RavenDB NoSQL Document Database to Share Data with Edge Points You Can’t Trust (Oren Eini)
Data Modeling and Partitioning for Relational Workloads (Lenni Lobel)

PowerShell

Manage Citrix Tags with PowerShell (Nick Richardson)
Troubleshoot Network connectivity issues on Windows Server using PowerShell (Thomas Maurer)

Miscellaneous

Netflix Studio Engineering Overview (Steve Urban, Sridhar Seetharaman, Shilpa Motukuri, Tom Mack, Erik Strauss, Hema Kannan & CJ Barker)
Nushell 0.16.0 (The Nu Authors)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3026 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-07-01 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2630 (Mike Gunderloy)
2020 mid-year link clearance (Raymond Chen)

The Geek Shelf

Test-Driven React: Find Problems Early, Fix Them Quickly, Code with Confidence (Trevor Burnham) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – June 10, 2020 (#3215)

Posted on June 10, 2020 | by Alvin A.

I’ll be taking some time off to work on a project at home for several days. Posts will be intermittent until June 22nd.

Top Links

The VS Code Go extension joins the Go project (The Go Team)
Modernization Story: Windows Forms to .NET Core, XAML Islands and MSIX Core (Robert Evans)
Nushell 0.15.0 (The Nu Authors)
Building Jamstack Infrastructure With Pulumi (Sophia Parafina)
Building Microsoft Teams Apps with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Extensions (MS Graph Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Angular vs Vue – Best 10 Comparisons you Need to Know (Hiren Dhaduk)
ASP.NET Core OData Part 2 (Ricardo Peres)
Using Azure Monitor Workbooks for Quick Monitoring Analytics (Abhijit Jana)
Using the DocumentViewer in Pure HTML and JavaScript (Bjoern Meyer)
Azure Service Bus .NET SDK Deep Dive – Sessions (Daniel Marbach)
How to use different syntax for Angular Interpolation (Dhananjay Kumar)
Azure CLI – Interactive Mode (Gregor Suttie)
Publishing a Jekyll Site to Azure Static Web Apps (Jason Gaylord)
Blazor vs React (Jon Hilton)
Web API Versioning in ASP.NET Core 3.1 and How to implement Automapper in ASP.NET Core 3.1 (Sanjay Modi)
Learn How to Run a Core App inside a Docker container “The short tutorial” (Mario Loza)
TypeScript: validating external data (Axel Rauschmayer)
The Open Source Community Tooling Built on GraphQL and The Open Source Community Tooling Built on gRPC (Kin Lane)
5 Myths About Jamstack (Brian Rinaldi)
From Static Sites To End User JAMstack Apps With FaunaDB (Bryan Robinson)
A Kata for Katas (Ian Bebbington)
FHIR Data Visualization (Lee Stott)
How to Create a Motion Hover Effect for a Background Image Grid (Mary Lou)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Overriding Back Button in Xamarin.Forms Shell… (Udara Alwis)
Sharpnado.Shadows: add many shadows to any Xamarin.Forms view (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
Working with connectivity in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
Xamarin Forms Update list items with out Refresh (Samir G.C.)
Porting an UWP app to iOS, Android and Web. A 5,000,000-app-downloads developer story (Fons Sonnemans)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio Code Go extension joins the Go project (Alessandro Segala)
Memory profiling on Linux and macOS with dotMemory 2020.2 (Alexey Totin)
await false & await true (Konrad Kokosa)
.NET Core May 2020 Updates – 2.1.19 and 3.1.5 (Rahul Bhandari)
Determining approximately how much stack space is available, part 1 (Raymond Chen)
CSharp – Fastest way of getting IPv4 Subnet Mask expansion aka CIDR IP, and speed comparisons (Mark Pahulje)
Mars Rover – Implementing Rover : Moving Forward (Cameron Presley)

Design, Methodology & Testing

June patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server (Gloridel Morales)
Time Management and Productivity Lessons for Managers (Gábor Zöld)
Create More Management Transparency (Johanna Rothman)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Introducing Google Play Asset Delivery (Dan Galpin)
Unity 2019 LTS is now available (Brett Bibby)
BLoC in Flutter: Implement Clean, Flux-like Architecture (Michael Krasnov)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Entity Framework Core In-Depth Part 1 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Webinar recording: RavenDB Polymorphism at scale (Oren Eini)
Ladybug Podcast – Black Lives Matter (Kelly Vaughn, Ali Spittel & Emma Bostian)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – CNCF: Under New Management, with Priyanka Sharma (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
RunAs Radio – WireShark in 2020 with Laura Chappell (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 167 (Jason Bock)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 412: Sam Gavis-Hughson on Technical Interviews (Felienne)

Community & Events

Philly .NET Online Meetup – Pipeline Infrastructure Automation with Terraform and ARM (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
Pride Festivals Are Going Virtual This Year—Here Are 10 Events to Check Out (Ellen Gutoskey)

Database

SQL SERVER – QDS_LOADDB Wait and Asynchronous Load of Query Store (Pinal Dave)
Azure Monitor and Azure SQL Database (Arun Sirpal)
Showing The Affects Of Database Index Structure On Membership Table JOIN Performance In MySQL 5.6.37 (Ben Nadel)

PowerShell

PowerShell: Write-Host or Write-Output? (Alex Yates)

Miscellaneous

Using Microsoft R in your Solutions (Buck Woody)
What to expect from a pair programming interview (Raul Oliver)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3011 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-06-10 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (Gene Kim & Patrick Debois) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – May 13, 2020 (#3196)

Posted on May 13, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Announcing Uno Platform 2.3 – Android 10, Android X, WinUI and more! (Uno Platform Team)
.NET Core May 2020 Updates – 2.1.18 and 3.1.4 (Rahul Bhandari)
INotifyPropertyChanged with C# 9.0 Source Generators (Jerome Laban)
Announcing TypeScript 3.9 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
Start Developing on Windows 10, version 2004 Today (Windows Developer Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Increase ASP.NET File Upload Limits (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Understand why CSS has no effect with the Inactive CSS rules indicator in Firefox DevTools (Elijah Manor)
Azure Cache for Redis—Enterprise features coming soon (Azure Team)
Using the Microsoft Feature Toggle Library in ASP.NET Core (Microsoft.FeatureManagement) (Jason Roberts)
May 2020 Azure SDK Release (Adrian Hall)
Synchronizing Editable Regions with SignalR Broadcasting (Bjoern Meyer)
React Single File Components Are Here (Chris Coyier)
Getting started with Angular development 2020 (Damien Bowden)
Comparing Performance of gRPC, Web API and WCF Services (Dane Vinson)
DHTMLX Diagram 3.0: Auto-Layout Algorithm, Smooth Configuration of Custom Shapes, and Fully Customizable Diagram Editors (Kotryna Kairyte)
Messaging with Azure Service Bus – Part 8 – Commands and Events (Mark Heath)
Credential Loading and the AWS SDK for .NET (Deep Dive) (Steve Gordon)
Scaling Kubernetes: Intro to Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA) (Abhishek Gupta)
Search in FHIR and Vonk (Christiaan Knaap)
Naming TypeScript Custom Type Guards (Steve Fenton)
Micro-Typography: How To Space And Kern Punctuation Marks And Other Symbols (Thomas Bohm)
Meet “Click!”: Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks (Vitaly Friedman)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Using ML.NET in a WPF Application (Frank LaVigne)
Design Xamarin Apps with 100+ XAML Pages and Templates Webinar Q&A (Jacqueline Bieringer)
Python Desktop Application Development with Telerik UI for WPF: A Mighty Combo to Try Out (Petar Mladenov)
The mystery of the missing iOS app icon (Martin Zikmund)

Visual Studio & .NET

New ‘Source Generators’ Stir Up the C# Crowd (David Ramel)
Python in Visual Studio Code – May 2020 Release (Luciana Abud)
.NET Framework May 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates (Tara Overfield)
How Sorting Order Depends on Runtime and Operating System (Andrey Akinshin)
Tutorial: Convert Video to HEVC/H.265 and AVC/H2.64 in C++ (Gabriel Smith)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Branching Patterns: Hotfix Branch (Martin Fowler)
GitHub Sponsors is out of beta for sponsored organizations (Devon Zuegel)
An Alternative to VSTS App in Slack app store (Divya Vaishnavi)
Create and push tags in the latest GitHub Desktop 2.5 release (Evelyn Masso)
Accelerating open source and hardware innovation to meet data and security demands (Kushagra Vaid)
Why to OneNote instead of Whiteboard? (Vesa Nopanen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

The Android PrivacyBreacher Project (Nikos Vaggalis)
Fix slow Nintendo Switch play with your Raspberry Pi (Ashley Whittaker)
Announcing ML-Agents Unity Package v1.0! (Marwan Mattar)
Ionic: Announcing Identity Vault 4.0 (Nick Hyatt)
Migration of NativeScript Cloud Builds to Circle CI (Rob Lauer)
Dart and Flutter Improve Performance, Safety, and Tooling for Cross-platform Mobile Development (Sergio De Simone)
Exploring Kotlin/Native – Part 2 – Interoperability (Thomas Moore)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Stream 93 – Adding Edit feature to the project Azure Url Shortener (Frank Boucher)
Get Started with Reinforcement Learning on Azure Machine Learning | AI Show and Time Series Forecasting with Automated Machine Learning | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
Xamarin.Forms 101: Intro to CollectionView and RefreshView | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno & Maddy Leger)
Integrating with Azure DevOps and DAS Deployer! | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady)
Microsoft 365 & SharePoint PnP Weekly – Episode 83 (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – CSI: Storage, with Saad Ali (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Rework Podcast – Bubble Wrap & Prayers (Basecamp)
Data processing with .NET for Apache Spark | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Rich Lander & Jeremy Likness)
Level-Up Engineering Podcast – Hack Social Engineering to Build Effective Teams (Gabor Zold)
RunAs Radio – Microsoft 365 Desired State Configuration with Nik Charlebois (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Talk Python to Me #264 – 10 tips every Flask developer should know (Michael Kennedy)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 161 (Jason Bock)

Community & Events

Building a more resilient world together (Billy Rutledge)
Celebrating The Garage Wall of Fame: A Look Back at 20 Stellar Projects with Impact (Meixia Huang)

Database

Dealing with sparse values in RavenDB timeseries (Oren Eini)
Announcing Spring Data Couchbase 4.0 (Arun Vijayraghavan)
Lessons learned implementing database deployments (Shawn Sesna)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Return To Work solution using Microsoft Healthcare Bot, Teams and Azure (Nikita Pitliya)
3 Microsoft Teams apps for running productive standups while working remotely (Jun Pak)

Miscellaneous

Scanning for answers to a pandemic (Bill Gates)
Releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19041.264 to the Slow & Release Preview rings (Brandon LeBlanc)
Google Meet is here to host your video meetings, for free (Javier Soltero)
Nushell 0.14.0 (The Nu Authors)
Using D2D Advertising to Influence Developer Search Behavior (Yolanda Fintschenko)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2992 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-05-13 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Code Like a Pro in C# (Jort Rodenburg) – Referral Link

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